Michael: Here most people want to spend the day with boyfriends or lovers!

Maggie: thanks

Maggie: so i have to rewrite it ...is it right?

Michael: Vance is still trying to come here...

Maggie: thanks again.

Michael: And usually other people come a bit later.

Maggie: and let me tell you some interesting things about last night.

Maggie: people bought some vegetables while walking in the street last night.

Maggie: and they throw it in a place which used to be a river

Maggie: and wish for a lucky new year..

Maggie: because it's the last day in the Spring Festival

Maggie: it's very funny..it's a street now

Maggie: and i am afraid the people who live there will not enjoy this festival

Maggie: cause there were too many vegetables there after peopl went away.

Maggie: so...I don't think i will eat vegetables these days

Maggie: maybe later.

Maggie: yes..and i took a photo of it..and

Status: Disconnected

Maggie has joined

Status: Connected

Michael has joined

Maggie: hello

Maggie: u went to Vance ..is it right?

Maggie: sorry..do u mean stay here..or go to Vance?

Maggie: ok

Michael: Michael and maggie are now in 2 chat rooms. Vance is at the

Homestead one.

Maggie: so..where should I type??here..or Homestead??

Maggie: ok.

(at this point Michael and Maggie both joined Vance in the Homestead chatroomhttp://www.homestead.com/vstevens/
but Michael continues to talk to Maggie throughout the chat!)

Connecting to chat server...

Connected and signed in.

You have joined the chat room as Anonymous84.

Members of room: Anonymous84 MAGGIE

You have changed your name to Vance.

<Vance> Hi. I can't get at the voice chat. Were you there?

Anonymous4 has joined the chat room.

Anonymous4 is now known as Michael C.

<Michael C> Who's here?

<Vance> Hi. Just me. I thought maggie was here.

<Michael C> Shall I suggest she comes here as well?

<Vance> Sorry I was checking the Palace

<Vance> Up to you. If you're enjoying the voice chat, keep that up

Michael C has left the chat room.

<MAGGIE> hello?

<Vance> < sniff! >

<Vance> Oh, hi!! I was just feeling lonely

<Vance> Are you talking to Michael?

<MAGGIE> yes..but i was just listening and typing

<MAGGIE> I don't have mic

Michael C has joined the chat room.

<Vance> Oh, the sound card isn't working in this computer

<Vance> And on my office computer, there's a firewall

<MAGGIE> oh..that's good for me..

<Michael C> Back again - my son just rang in and threw me off.

<MAGGIE> oh,,,i see

<Vance> My son is using my computer at home

<Vance> That's one reason i stayed at the office

<MAGGIE> i see...what a pity

<Michael C> Children! Such a nuisance!

<Michael C> But there lovely as well!

<MAGGIE> I am a child too..so talk sth good about child here

<Vance> Yeah, I''m a child too.

<Michael C> That should be "they're lovely as well!"

<MAGGIE> no..u r not a child ...Vance!!

<Michael C> Children are WONDERFUL!!!!

<Vance> Well, I THINK like one

We lost a little of the chat here. Maggie has said that in China, couples are limited to only one child. Michael is saying that he is still with Maggie in the voice chat room and he's talking to her there. Maggie doesn't have a microphone, so she can only hear Michael, but can't speak. Vance is at work where he can't get into chat areas because of the firewall.

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am sometimes talking to her in the other room!)

<Michael C> LOL!

<Vance> Yeah, good idea Michael.

<MAGGIE> if one couple have two children or more they will have

to pay a lot of money to the government

Michael C has left the chat room.

<MAGGIE> don't u know that?

Anonymous97 has joined the chat room.

<Vance> Yes, I knew that

Anonymous97 is now known as Michael C.

<Michael C> I just resized my browser and I had to reconnect!

<<MAGGIE> I don't

<Michael C> Do you have a scanner Maggie?

<MAGGIE> I don't have a scanner...sorry

<Michael C> What time did you go to bed last night?

<MAGGIE> I went to bed at 3:00 in the morning

<Michael C> Wow!

<Vance> noisy?

<MAGGIE> just on holiday I went to bed latly

<Michael C> Do you often go to bed that late?

<MAGGIE> just on holiday

<Michael C> Me too.

<MAGGIE> and many people bought windmill last night.

<Michael C> Bought windmills?

<MAGGIE> If i am not on holiday..I will go to bed at 12

<MAGGIE> it's very small..and

<Michael C> So about the same as me.

<MAGGIE> people want all the worse go away whiling the

windmills move

<Vance> You are in Guandong?

<Michael C> I see. That sounds nice.

<MAGGIE> yes.

<MAGGIE> I am in Guandong

<Vance> What city?

<MAGGIE> Foshan..near Guanzhou

<MAGGIE> Guandong is a province in the south of China

<Vance> I haven't been there. I like traveling in China though. it's

very interesting for a westerner. Different

<Michael C> (Michael asks about his pronunciation...)

<MAGGIE> yes.Michael..u r right

<Vance> I wish i could hear Michael now. How do you pronounce

your name, MC?

<Vance> coff -lin? cog- line?

<Michael C> My surname I guess you mean?

<Michael C> cog-lin

<MAGGIE> what is "cog-lin"?

<Vance> It's how to say his name, Coghlin

<Michael C> The Irish would say 'coch-lin' with the guttural 'gh' like